Regional MEAL Officer — Middle East

Join HAMAP Humanitaire as a Regional MEAL Officer in Lebanon, focusing on improving the quality and accountability of humanitarian projects in the Middle East.

• *Reports to: Regional Coordinator for Middle East;
• *Coordinates with: Country and Project Coordinators, Regional HMA Technical Advisor, Regional Support Manager, HQ programme-quality and technical focal points, and local partner programme, MEAL and information-management staff.
• *Direct reports: None initially. The position may provide functional supervision to enumerators, consultants or temporary data-collection personnel when required.
• Contribute to needs assessments, context analyses, concept notes and proposals by strengthening theories of change, results frameworks, indicators, targets, monitoring methods, evaluation questions and MEAL budgets.
• Develop and periodically update common regional templates, guidance notes, checklists and minimum standards for monitoring, reporting, data quality, accountability, learning and information management.
• Promote standardisation where it improves comparability, quality and efficiency, while allowing justified adaptation to national standards, donor requirements, operational realities and partner systems.
• Provide induction and refresher training to HAMAP and partner staff on the regional MEAL framework and relevant tools.
• Contribute evidence and analysis to strategy development, donor engagement, coordination forums and organisational reporting when delegated by management.
• Remain informed of relevant developments in humanitarian MEAL, localisation, responsible data and HMA information management, and translate useful practices into realistic improvements for HAMAP programmes.

• Regional MEAL systems and portfolio oversight
• Develop and maintain a proportionate regional MEAL framework and workplan covering Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, aligned with country strategies, project commitments, organisational priorities and partner capacities.
• Establish and maintain a consolidated portfolio-monitoring system linking projects’ MINE-MEAL tools, grants, partners, locations, activities, indicators, targets, results, reporting deadlines and supporting evidence.
• Build practical dashboards and portfolio-review products that provide management with a clear macro view of progress, delivery trends, geographic and population coverage, grant performance, implementation bottlenecks and emerging risks.
• Maintain a master indicator matrix and indicator reference sheets, harmonising definitions, calculations, disaggregation and evidence requirements wherever possible while preserving donor-specific and national requirements.
• Identify and resolve inconsistencies between project tools and reports, including duplicate counting, incompatible indicator definitions, missing disaggregation, unsupported results and divergence between narrative and quantitative reporting.
• Facilitate regular project, country and regional performance reviews and maintain an action tracker so that findings lead to documented management decisions and follow-up.
• Support Country and Project Coordinators to develop and update theories of change, logical frameworks, monitoring plans, indicator performance tracking tables, data-flow maps, data-collection plans, reporting calendars and MEAL budgets.
• Review routine project and partner submissions for completeness, internal consistency, plausibility, required disaggregation and traceability to source documentation before consolidation into HAMAP and donor reporting.
• Liaise closely with the Regional HMA Technical Advisor and relevant Project Coordinators on partner reporting. The Regional MEAL Officer will verify data structure, evidence, calculations and reporting consistency, while technical validation of HMA methodologies and operational outputs remains with the appropriate technical function.
• Plan and conduct proportionate data-quality assessments, monitoring visits, remote verifications and evidence-file reviews, and support teams and partners to implement corrective actions.
• Develop and maintain auditable project evidence systems, including clear filing conventions, source-document registers, version control, validation status and links between reported results and supporting documentation.
• Support the design and implementation of baselines, endlines, KAP studies, post-activity monitoring, training assessments, outcome monitoring and other internal or external data-collection exercises.
• Promote timely reporting and early escalation of data limitations, underperformance, access constraints or methodological weaknesses rather than retrospective correction at donor-reporting stage.
• Assess MEAL and information-management capacities jointly with local partners, recognising existing systems and priorities rather than assuming that HAMAP tools should automatically replace them.
• Co-develop practical, time-bound capacity-strengthening plans for partner MEAL, reporting, data management, accountability and learning, with clear responsibilities and indicators of institutional progress.
• Provide coaching, on-the-job accompaniment and training to partner programme, operations, MEAL and information-management staff on indicators, data collection, analysis, evidence management, reporting and learning.
• Help partners adapt donor and HAMAP requirements into manageable internal workflows, with clear roles from field data collection through validation, analysis, approval and submission.
• Support partner ownership of analysis and reporting by involving partner teams in data-review meetings, interpretation of findings, preparation of reports, presentation of results and definition of corrective measures.
• Avoid unnecessary parallel systems and promote interoperability between partner databases, HAMAP portfolio tools, donor reporting formats and national mine-action information requirements where relevant.
• Document the evolution of partner MEAL capacity and identify where additional organisational, technical or resourcing support is needed for sustainable localisation.
• Support coherent data architecture for HAMAP-supported HMA activities, including land release, survey, clearance, EORE/CPP, training, capacity strengthening and related community-level outcomes, while respecting national standards and authority reporting arrangements.
• Work with technical colleagues and partners to ensure that data-collection forms, databases, maps, dashboards, task or activity records and narrative reports use consistent definitions and can be reconciled.
• Develop or improve digital data-collection and reporting tools using appropriate platforms such as KoboToolbox, ODK, Survey123, Excel or comparable systems, taking account of connectivity, language, user capacity and data-protection constraints.
• Apply routine data-cleaning, deduplication, validation, geospatial and logical checks, and maintain controlled datasets with clear ownership, backup and access arrangements.
• Produce maps, dashboards, analytical briefs and visualisations that support operational planning, programme management, donor communication and strategic decision-making.
• Support IMSMA-compatible or national-authority-compatible reporting where applicable, in coordination with the Regional HMA Technical Advisor and designated country or partner information-management focal points.
• Strengthen staff and partner ability to interpret HMA data, not only enter it, including analysis of reach, relevance, efficiency, quality, outcome trends and gaps in coverage.
• Support country teams and partners to establish or strengthen accessible, safe and context-appropriate community feedback and complaints mechanisms, with clear referral, response, confidentiality and closure procedures.
• Ensure that community feedback and monitoring findings are periodically analysed, discussed with programme teams and used to adjust implementation.
• Promote meaningful participation of affected people and partner organisations in assessment design, monitoring, interpretation of findings and learning processes.
• Apply appropriate sex, age, disability, displacement and other context-relevant disaggregation, and promote conflict-sensitive, inclusive and do-no-harm approaches to data collection and use.
• Ensure compliance with HAMAP requirements on informed consent, confidentiality, safeguarding, data minimisation, and controlled sharing of personal or sensitive information.
• Develop an annual regional learning agenda linked to programme priorities, recurring implementation challenges, partner capacity development and strategic questions across Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.
• Plan and facilitate after-action reviews, pause-and-reflect sessions, project reviews and structured lessons-learned workshops with HAMAP and partner staff.
• Maintain a regional lessons and recommendations register, with assigned actions, deadlines and follow-up on whether learning has been incorporated into tools, procedures, project design or management decisions.
• Coordinate internal reviews and support external evaluations, including preparation of terms of reference, data and documentation, stakeholder engagement, quality review of deliverables and management responses.
• Produce concise learning notes, case studies and cross-country syntheses that capture both results and implementation experience, including what did not work and why.
• Organise accessible knowledge repositories so that tools, evaluations, lessons, methods and evidence can be retrieved and reused across projects and by local partners.

• Bachelor’s degree in monitoring and evaluation, statistics, economics, social sciences, development studies, public policy, information management, data science, GIS or another relevant field. A relevant Master’s degree is desirable.
• At least four years of relevant professional experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or two years with a relevant Master’s degree, in MEAL, monitoring and evaluation, information management, programme quality or a closely related function.
• Demonstrated experience designing and using logical frameworks, indicator reference sheets, monitoring plans, data-collection tools, databases, dashboards and reporting systems.
• Experience supporting humanitarian or development programmes funded through multiple grants and reporting cycles.
• Experience working with local or national partner organisations through accompaniment, capacity assessment, coaching and jointly owned systems development.
• Experience conducting data-quality reviews, field monitoring, assessments, quantitative and qualitative analysis, learning exercises or evaluations.
• Experience in a multi-country, regional or geographically dispersed role is desirable.
• Professional experience in humanitarian mine action is highly desirable but not mandatory.
• Experience with HMA information management, IMSMA-compatible reporting, GIS, spatial data, KoboToolbox/ODK, Survey123, Power BI or comparable platforms is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with IMAS/NMAS, land-release and EORE/CPP data structures, national mine-action authority reporting, or comparable regulated operational data systems is an advantage.
• Experience in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq or comparable Middle Eastern humanitarian contexts is an advantage.
• Experience contributing to donor proposals and reports for institutional donors is desirable.
• Advanced command of Microsoft Excel, including structured datasets, formulas, pivot tables, validation controls and clear analytical outputs.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, with the ability to move between detailed data verification and portfolio-level interpretation.
• Ability to design proportionate systems that are useful to programme teams and partners, not only compliant on paper.
• Ability to translate donor, organisational and technical requirements into clear tools, workflows, roles and deadlines.
• Strong facilitation, coaching and training skills, including the ability to support colleagues with different levels of MEAL and digital literacy.
• Strong written communication and reporting skills, with the ability to present complex evidence in concise narrative, tabular, visual and dashboard formats.
• Sound understanding of accountability to affected populations, participation, safeguarding, data protection and responsible data management.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage several projects, grants, reporting calendars and follow-up processes simultaneously.
• Diplomacy and constructive challenge: ability to identify weaknesses clearly while maintaining trust with partner and internal teams.
• Ability to work independently, travel regularly, and provide effective remote support in access-constrained environments.

• The position may be recruited under a national or international contract, depending on the selected candidate’s profile, eligibility and agreed status.
• The position is budgeted at a total monthly employer cost of EUR 2,900, inclusive of salary, applicable employer taxes or social contributions and any recurring per diem or expatriation component. The corresponding gross and net remuneration will depend on contract status and applicable taxation.
• For an international candidate, accommodation in Beirut and approved international travel costs are covered separately from the above monthly employment budget, in accordance with HAMAP policy.
• Costs of approved duty travel within the region are covered by HAMAP in accordance with applicable procedures.
• Insurance, leave, R&R and other benefits are provided according to the applicable national or international contract and HAMAP policy.